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The effects of amorphous structure on the devitrification of Al90Tb10 marginal glass former system were investigated in detail by a combined study of high-energy X-ray diffraction (HEXRD), X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS), reverse Monte Carlo simulations (RMC), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and thermal analyses. The atomic structures of melt-spun ribbons and magnetron sputtered amorphous samples with the same composition were simulated using RMC constrained by XRD, EXAFS, and ab-initio results. The fcc-Al nanocrystals nucleated and grown in thin-film specimens have a limited size with almost perfect spherical morphology. The population of these nanocrystals is three orders of magnitude higher as compared to ribbon specimens. The differences in the devitrified ribbon and thin-film metallic glasses were traced back to structural differences in the amorphous state. The amorphous melt-spun ribbons and magnetron sputtered thin- films were found to have different degrees of short-range order and clustering.
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The work at METU was supported by the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) under the Grant Number: FA9550-17-1-0216. The high-energy X-ray experiments were performed at the MSPD and CLAESS beamlines of ALBA and financially supported by the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK). The authors would like to thank Prof. M. J. Kramer and the Materials Preparation Center of the Ames Laboratory for supplying the samples.
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Ulucan, T.H., Kalay, I. & Kalay, Y.E. The Anomalous Nucleation in Al-Tb Metallic Glasses. Metall Mater Trans A 52, 700–710 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-020-06111-6
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